Stuck 14 months at airport, Congolese asylum seeker wins UN ruling against Seoul

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has urged South Korea to compensate a 52-year-old Congolese asylum seeker and take steps to prevent similar violations after he was confined for 14 months in the transit area of Incheon Airport, according to public interest law group Duroo on Wednesday. The committee found that he was forced to remain in the airport’s transit area until April 2021. It described the 14-month confinement as arbitrary detention, saying the deprivation of liberty lacked a cl

By The Korea Herald